Welcome to another Tuesday celebrating bookish events, from Tuesday/First Chapter/Intros, hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea; and Teaser Tuesdays hosted by Should Be Reading.
Today’s featured book is You Should Have Known, by Jean Hanff Korelitz.
Intro: (Chapter One: You Just Know)
Usually people cried when they came here for the first time, and this girl looked as if she’d be no exception. She walked in with a briefcase and a swagger and shook Grace’s hand like the cool professional she clearly was, or at least wished to be. Then she sat on the couch and crossed one long twill-encased leg over the other. And then, sort of abruptly, she seemed to register where she was, with a wallop.
“Oh wow,” said the girl, whose name—Grace had double-checked a few minutes earlier—was Rebecca Wynne. “I haven’t been in a therapist’s office since college.”
Grace sat in her customary chair, crossed her own much shorter legs, and leaned forward. She couldn’t help it.
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Teaser: Grace nodded. Doubts emerged often in her practice: very old, dessicated doubts, saved and preserved and brought forth by very wounded, very sad women. They were a theme with countless variations: I knew he drank too much. I knew he couldn’t keep his mouth shut. I knew he didn’t love me, not as much as I loved him. (p. 16)
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Amazon Description: Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself, devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son, Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice. Grace is also the author of the forthcoming You Should Have Known, a book in which she castigates women for not valuing their intuition and calls upon them to pay attention to their first impressions of men.
But weeks before the book is published, a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.
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Would you keep reading? I am a sucker for books about human flaws and frailties, and about the therapists who try to help their patients. Call if years of working with broken families.
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I really want to read this one although I’ve read it takes a while to get going. However your excerpts have persuaded me to leave it on the list. Here is my Tuesday Teaser http://cleopatralovesbooks.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/tuesday-teaser-may-27/
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Thanks for stopping by, Cleopatra…I hope I engage with it quickly, as I just finished a book that took FOREVER to connect with…..
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That sounds so good. I would go on reading….
Here is my intro post from Sufficient Ransom by Sylvia Sarno .
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Here is my teaser post from Night Fish by Kristine Ong Muslim .
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Thanks, Gautami…I am hoping to enjoy it. Glad you liked the excerpts.
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I like the intro and thought the book was pretty good as well –enjoy and thanks for joining us again Laurel
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After I posted this last night, Diane, I got to thinking that I had seen this book on your blog. Luckily it was just a review, and not your Intro.! LOL
Thanks for stopping by and for hosting.
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I’ve been seeing this book around a lot lately and it definitely intrigues me – I may add it to my TBR list!
Here’s Mine: http://www.sarahsbookshelves.com/fiction/first-chapter-first-paragraph-tuesday-intros-chasing-sun-natalia-sylvester/
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Yes, I love when a book keeps showing up…and then I hear others rave about it, until it’s somehow on my shelves! LOL Thanks for stopping by, Sarah.
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I think I would keep reading because I want to see what happens! thanks for sharing. I might check this one out.
trish – my teaser
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Thanks, Trish…I do love how these events lead to our toppling TBR stacks. Enjoy your week!
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This sounds like my kind of read. Thanks for sharing.
My Tuesday intro: http://www.bookclublibrarian.com/2014/05/first-chapter-first-paragraph-62.html
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Hope you enjoy it, too, Catherine, and thanks for visiting!
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This does sound intriguing but not at all in my usual genres. Came see my teasers for The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu and The Lost by Sarah Beth Durst. Happy reading!
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I am glad you could stop by, Kathy M. Enjoy your books!
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I loved this one! Loved it!
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Yes, I remember seeing it on your blog, Patty….thanks for stopping by!
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What a coincidence! I just downloaded this book to my kindle… sounds like a good one.
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I find all kinds of books on Sparky these days…the downloading is so easy and it just seems to happen! LOL
Thanks for stopping by, JoAnn…hope you enjoy it.
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I like that beginning, I’d keep reading. Thanks so much for stopping by today. kelley—the road goes ever ever on
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I’m glad you could return the visit, Kelley, and enjoy your week.
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Subscribing from Teaser Tuesdays/First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros.
I must like that type of book as well, as I’ve read two in the last month or so: “The Idea of Him” and “Hypocrisy”. I’m sure you know this, but for those who don’t, there is a free download of “You Should Have Known”‘s first four chapters on Amazon, for those who want to delve further.
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I will be getting The Idea of Him from Vine this week….thanks for stopping by, LuAnn…enjoy your reading.
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This is right up my street too I reckon, it sounds really good! I hope you enjoy it.
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I am excited about it, Lindsay…thanks for stopping by!
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Yes, I would keep reading. I hope to get to this book soom.
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I hope to be reading it by tomorrow…I started reading Eyes on You and only slept about two hours last night, it’s such a page turner…LOL. Thanks for visiting, Nise.
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What a lovely first paragraph. I felt myself leaning in too.
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Oh, me too, Margot….I am familiar with that “leaning in” position! LOL Thanks for stopping by.
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Oh, I think the Amazon description took me by surprise, judging by the first paragraph I thought it is more light-hearted, but obviously not – which I find much more interesting! I would pick up this book.
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Good to know, Peggy…thanks for stopping by! I’m going to start reading it now, having finished the book I was reading today.
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I haven’t heard about this one before. It sounds good.
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I have seen it on a few blogs, and thought I’d take a chance on it. Thanks for visiting, Yvonne.
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This does sound good! I like stories about human frailties too and how people re-invent themselves.
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Definitely! Thanks for stopping by, Wendy.
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I absolutely would keep reading this one! Adding it to my list now!
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Thanks for stopping by, Kim.
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Well, the beginning or Teaser doesn’t do much for me. The synopsis does move me. It seems like she’s going to go through a lot of pain. The man and woman seem like very nice people if you think of their careers.
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Glad you could visit, Tea.
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This is good! I gotta read this!
Here is my intro post from Song for Sophia by Moriah Densley.
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Here is my teaser post from Extra Care by Alina Cosma .
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Thanks for stopping by…this was last week’s teaser; I entered the wrong link at first…but glad you liked it, Gautami.
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Although I’m not really liking the synopsis, I thought the Intro and Teaser were really good. I love the way Rebecca suddenly notices where she is! It can be quite shocking to suddenly realize you are actually there! Based on the intro and teaser, I definitely would keep reading! I hope you enjoy it 🙂
My Intro
Juli @ Universe in Words
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Thanks for stopping by, Juli…hope you enjoy your read.
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